25 Years ofDesign House Stockholm

After 25 years as a publishing house for creative minds and curious souls it was time to celebrate. Design House Stockholm has put the spotlight on the core values behind Scandinavian design; simplicity and fantasy.

Design House Stockholm has created a gallery open for the public in the display windows of the high end department store NK on Hamngatan, Stockholm. Each window consists of carefully selected products which had been arranged into unique settings, crafted by six of Sweden’s most interesting stylists; Annaleena Leino, Sara Garanty, Saša Antic´, Amanda Rodriguez, Tina Hellberg and Synnöve Mork.

See inside the studio of Atelier2+

The creators of the Greenhouse fromDesign House Stockholm.

Atelier2+ is a creative studio based in Bangkok. The studio was founded in 2010. We are interested in many form of creativity from architecture, art, craft and design. We also collaborate with other design studio both locally and internationally. Our work is somewhere between art and design, theoretical and practical. We are not only thinker but also maker. We don’t create only building and object, but rather the visual culture.

Images: http://www.ateliertwoplus.com/our-studio/

Shop the Greenhouse here:

A room within a room for nature. Designer duo Atelier 2+ have created a greenhouse that is small enough for indoor use but large enough to house a miniature garden. The Greenhouse is a design object with artistic ambitions, a sculpture that makes room for nature. Green plants are a neglected area which call for innovative design solutions; precisely what Greenhouse offers.

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Crane Cookware

At Vincent design supply

Crane Cookware is a United Kingdom based cast-iron cookware brand that produces high quality contemporary enamelled professional cookware, made in France. Crane specilizes in an ergonomic, minimal and functional range of cooking essentials that aims to bring the love back to your cooking and cast iron cookware. Crane's cast-iron range is suitable for all types of hobs, from gas to new induction style cooktops. Available through Vincent design supply.

Knot Cushion

At the present we can only speculate as to whetherRagnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir’s Knot cushionwill become a classic. But the Icelandic designer’screation belongs to the exclusive group of productsathat remain in one’s memory. The design is sostrong that it can live its own life independent ofthe actual product of which it forms a part. Thisis true of Alvar Aalto’s Savoy vase and it may verywell become true of the Knot cushion too.

“I have always been attracted to strange and unique things,” Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir explains as she talks about how she developed the idea of Knot. “I try to create unusual designs; products that are unpredictable and that make people curious.” But there was a long way to go when she started experimenting with tubular knitting on a machine some five years ago. She was really looking for an efficient way of manufacturing the legs of a teddy bear rather than crocheting them by hand. But she ended up with a knot-like cushion and where exactly the inspiration came from she has wondered about herself:

“As a child I was in the scouts,”she explains, “and I was very good at doing knots.” Instant classic.

Sigurðardóttir’s colourful cushion can brighten up almost any living room, waiting room or office. When Design House Stockholm’s managing director Anders Färdig describes the principal qualities of the cushion he comparesthe Knot cushion with Harri Koskinen’s modern classic Block Lamp: “When the Block Lamp was presented for the first time, there were lots of people who wondered whether it could be regardedas a lamp at all. Everyone just smiledand the Knot cushion brought fortha similar reaction.”

Knot is made from a knitted tube, several meters in length, which is then tied up to create a compact knot which is as comfortable as a support in the sofa as it is elegant to behold. A cushion with a peculiar charisma, based on sculptural form instead of patterns. “I try to create unusual designs; products that are unpredictable and that make people curious.” explains Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir.